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Cole Wolf
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evolutionary biologist in Madison WI. naturalist, birder, photographer, dog walker, doomscroller. he/him

iNat profile: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/435637
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kashana.blacksky.app
Where are the learning loss people? It’s hard to learn at school if you’re afraid to go because the secret police might kidnap you.
keunghui.bsky.social Keung Hui @keunghui.bsky.social · 1d
Charlotte-Mecklebburg Schools, according to reports, saw 15% of its students absent today amid Border Patrol operations in Charlotte. If that percentage of 15% happens Tuesday in Wake County due to the Border Patrol coming to Raleigh, 24.000 students could be absent from school. #nced #ncpol #wcpss
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
I’m also struck how many important MAHA people are folks who tripped on shrooms for the first time as adults and think they’ve discovered something.
brandyzadrozny.bsky.social Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 20h
HHS Secretary has made a key component of his tenure ridding the agency of … checking notes … ah yes, conflicts of interest

(From a write up of Kennedy’s MAHA Summit via one of many MAHA propaganda publications)
Over the next several years, Angermayer assembled a team of like-minded entrepreneurs (including Silicon Valley billionaire, Peter Thiel) to invest in a handful of startups aimed at developing psychedelics for medicinal purposes. In 2018 Angermayer started his own firm, the German-headquartered ATAI Life Sciences, which he took public in 2021 on the Nasdaq. “The fact that psychedelics have been criminalized and shunned over the last fifty years is crazy, Angermayer has said, “because they have long had a place in human history.” They work on areas of the brain where pain and trauma are stored, shutting down the ego and allowing an inner voice to emerge and begin working on dissolving past trauma. First, some background on Angermayer and his wide range of interests. Now 47, he’s originally from rural Germany and today resides in a London penthouse. His visitors are greeted at the door by a large skull of a triceratops, whose skeleton he unearthed during his work with paleontologists. Inside the apartment are ancient artifacts including a bronze statue of the Egyptian god Osiris and a large stone statue of the Greek goddess Demeter. Both deities had disciples involved with hallucinogenic rituals around psychedelics, Angermayer’s research has revealed. Angermayer made his fortune as a shrewd investor in biotechnologies. His initial company, Ribopharma, pursued ways to deactivate problematic genes and, after a merger with an American company in 2003, made him a billionaire. His Apeiron Investment Group went on to pour capital into a range of start-ups, including life-extending treatments and brain implants for people with paralysis. Last week’s MAHA Summit in Washington brought a full day of fascinating panels, on subjects ranging from “food as medicine” to breakthroughs in biotechnology. Perhaps the most thought-provoking of all was a discussion between German billionaire entrepreneur Christian Angermayer and Matt Zorn, deputy general counsel for Health and Human Services (HHS). Their panel, titled “Psychedelic Medicine: The Next Frontier in Mental Health,” centered around what both men described as a coming new era of mental health care that will use a class of psychoactive substances, known as psychedelics or hallucinogens, to treat depression and other conditions.
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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danielpayne.bsky.social
New: The Trump administration is plotting what could be its most disruptive vaccine policies yet.

Internally, major vaccine manufacturers are terrified.

www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/t...
Trump and RFK Jr. are mulling their most disruptive vaccine policies yet — alarming manufacturers
Trump and Kennedy are considering removing aluminum from vaccines and breaking up shots that protect against multiple diseases.
www.statnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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assignedmedia.org
EXCLUSIVE: A forced detransition policy had disastrous effects in one Georgia prison, according to the manager of the medical unit there.

The policy is on hold due to a court order requiring prisons to re-start hormone treatments for incarcerated people in GA.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
EXCLUSIVE: Forced Detransitions ‘Nearly Toppled’ Medical Unit in Georgia Prison During Care Ban — Assigned
In the midst of a lawsuit, a Georgia prison resumes gender affirming care for trans inmates.
www.assignedmedia.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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crampell.bsky.social
Of course the White House is leaning into this. Because apparently they don't realize we exported more higher ed last year than natural gas & coal *combined*
November 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
New foreign student enrollment in the US fell 17% this fall www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
How foreign student enrollment is shifting in the U.S., in 6 charts
Foreign student enrollment in U.S. colleges has stalled, with a 17 percent decline in new students this fall after Trump policy changes, a key survey shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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chadloder.bsky.social
We'd have less fascism if more guys got knocked the fuck out early in life for stuff like this until they dropped the habit
nycsouthpaw.bsky.social southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d
I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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fleerultra.bsky.social
honestly pathetic for every institution that larry summers beat them to the punch by announcing he’s stepping back before anyone outright fired him. CAP wyd
November 18, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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jamellebouie.net
this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011
greatunclebob.bsky.social Great Uncle Bob @greatunclebob.bsky.social · 1d
President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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unavaleable.bsky.social
Who Was President in 2020 is the defining question of our time
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
"This all began with the Rigged Census" claims the guy who was president during the 2020 census
I will be strongly endorsing against any State Senator or House member from the Great State of Indiana that votes against the Republican Party, and our Nation, by not allowing for Redistricting for Congressional seats in the United States House of Representatives as every other State in our Nation is doing, Republican or Democrat. Democrats are trying to steal our seats everywhere, and we’re not going to let this happen! This all began with the Rigged Census. We must keep the Majority at all costs. Republicans must fight back!
November 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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slclunk.com
You have to do this to every Democratic aligned guy in those emails. It’s a cancer that needs to be cut out
jbendery.bsky.social Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 1d
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
November 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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oliviamesser.bsky.social
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.

He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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miriamelder.bsky.social
Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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tullamore-jew.bsky.social
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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rincewind.run
everyone who wants Democrats to focus on throwing immigrants and trans people under the bus needs to explain why this is not going to be the end result
avdeggar.bsky.social A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2d
13% after 16 months.

And his unpopularity has "no floor".
Keir Starmer satisfaction polling - he's at 13%
November 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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beyerstein.bsky.social
Coercive sterilization in ICE detention. Eugenics.
November 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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wagatwe.com
one of many reasons why the whole "Democrats have no space for men" argument is bullshit is that they still keep misogynist creeps like Larry Summers around
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d
I refuse to believe that Larry Summers' expertise and skills are indispensable in any way. Please find another economist and policy expert, @americanprogress.bsky.social. There are loads out there.
November 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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prchovanec.bsky.social
This, from the people who said sending artillery shells to Ukraine would leave us unable to defend Taiwan.
nslayton.bsky.social Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 2d
Roughly a fifth of all deployed US naval ships are in the Caribbean, according to Stars & Stripes and USNI News
November 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
Uh

this is

enormous
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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rawstory.com
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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jamellebouie.net
i want to put this in front of conservative pundits who defended this raid bsky.app/profile/raws...
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM